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| Resource: | Books (P42055.0000-5) The Gospel According To The Beatles |
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| Author: | Turner, Steve | |
| Publisher: | w, 2006 | |
| Length: | 253 pages | |
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| # Copies: | 1 | |
| ISBN/ISSN: | 9780664229832 | |
| Description: | "If the Beatles had a 'gospel,' it presupposes that they believed that something was wrong with the world. You don't go around dispensing 'good news' if you think everything's fine. The Christian gospel was meant to be good news to people who were enslaved to wrong desires and heading for hell. It offered them peace (with God), freedom (from guilt) and forgiveness (for sin). . . . The central concern of the Beatles is harder to pin down because they didn't believe in a cataclysmic event such as the fall or in a definitive redemptive act such as the atonement. However, a good case can be made for saying that their central concern was always freedom of one sort or another. The human problem, in their eyes, was one of constraint. We couldn't reach our full potential if we were inhibited. "One thing I can tell you," John sang in "Come Together," "is you got to be free." -from The Gospel according to the Beatles Renowned British music journalist and author Steve Turner surveys the religious and spiritual influence of the Beatles, the band that changed the history of music forever. With new interviews, never-before-published material, and fresh insights, Turner helps the reader understand the religious and spiritual ideas and ideals that influenced the music and lives of the Beatles and helps us see how the Fab Four influenced our own lives and culture. Chapters include the religious upbringing of John, Paul, George, and Ringo; the backlash in the United States after John Lennon's "The Beatles are more popular than Jesus" comment; the dabbling in Eastern religion; the use of drugs to attempt to enter a higher level of consciousness; and the overall legacy that the Beatles and their music have left. While there is no religious system that permanently anchored the Beatles or their music, they did leave a gospel, Turner concludes: one of love, peace, personal freedom, and the search for transcendence. |
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| Age Groups: | None specified. |
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